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==Service==
 
==Service==
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It appears that she was to participate in the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]],{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|11 July 1901, p. 8}} but the official report on the manoeuvres indicates that her place was taken by {{UK-Kangaroo}}.
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In late 1905, she was one of eight destroyers in the First Division of the [[Channel Fleet (Royal Navy)|Channel Fleet]]'s Destroyer Flotilla.{{NLNov05|pp. 267, 269}}
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''Recruit'' was hit while at anchor in Sheerness Harbour by a barge on 27 April, 1907.  She was taken into the steam basin, awaiting her turn in the No. 3 Dock when {{UK-Ure}} was undocked on 29 April.<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Monday, Apr 29, 1907; pg. 10; Issue 38319.</ref>
 
''Recruit'' was hit while at anchor in Sheerness Harbour by a barge on 27 April, 1907.  She was taken into the steam basin, awaiting her turn in the No. 3 Dock when {{UK-Ure}} was undocked on 29 April.<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Monday, Apr 29, 1907; pg. 10; Issue 38319.</ref>
  
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Recruit''">
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Recruit''">
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Henry Gerald Elliot Lane|nick=Henry G. E. Lane|appt=16 July, 1901{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8}}|end=|note=for the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]], apparently {{UK-Kangaroo}} went instead}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} (and Commander?)|name=Cecil Eustace Rooke|nick=Cecil E. Rooke|appt=16 January, 1902{{NLMay02|p. 297''a''}}|end=5 June, 1902|note=stranded the ship and was later Court Martialed}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} (and Commander?)|name=Cecil Eustace Rooke|nick=Cecil E. Rooke|appt=16 January, 1902{{NLMay02|p. 297''a''}}|end=5 June, 1902|note=stranded the ship and was later Court Martialed}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Rowland Henry Bather|nick=Rowland H. Bather|appt=30 May, 1902<ref>"Naval & Military intelligence" ''The Times'' (London). Friday, 16 May 1902. (36769), p. 11.</ref>|end=11 June, 1902<ref>Bather Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/438.|D7576567}} f. 438.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Rowland Henry Bather|nick=Rowland H. Bather|appt=30 May, 1902{{NMI|Friday, 16 May 1902. (36769), p. 11}}|end=11 June, 1902<ref>Bather Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/438.|D7576567}} f. 438.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Wilfred Henderson|nick=Wilfred Henderson|appt=21 July, 1903<ref>"APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Jul 16, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37134.</ref>|end=|note=for manoeuvres}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Wilfred Henderson|nick=Wilfred Henderson|appt=21 July, 1903<ref>"APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Jul 16, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37134.</ref>|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1903]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=George James Todd|nick=George J. Todd|appt=3 January, 1905<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>|end=14 March, 1905<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=George James Todd|nick=George J. Todd|appt=3 January, 1905{{NMI|Saturday, December 24, 1904, Issue 37586, p.4}}<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>|end=14 March, 1905<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Nicholas|nick=John Nicholas|appt=14 March, 1905<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>|end=27 April, 1905<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Nicholas|nick=John Nicholas|appt=14 March, 1905<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>|end=27 April, 1905<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Lionel John Garfit Anderson|nick=Lionel J. G. Anderson|appt=27 April, 1905<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/354.|D7603138}} f. 399.</ref>|end=20 October, 1905<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/354.|D7603138}} f. 399.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Lionel John Garfit Anderson|nick=Lionel J. G. Anderson|appt=27 April, 1905<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/354.|D7603138}} f. 399.</ref>|end=20 October, 1905<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/354.|D7603138}} f. 399.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Harry Lumsden Boyle|nick=Harry L. Boyle|appt=28 May, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 365}}|end=5 November, 1907}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Harry Lumsden Boyle|nick=Harry L. Boyle|appt=28 May, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 365}}|end=5 November, 1907}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Claude Hillersden Woodward|nick=Claude H. Woodward|appt=5 November, 1907|end=24 June, 1908}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Claude Hillersden Woodward|nick=Claude H. Woodward|appt=5 November, 1907|end=24 June, 1908}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Robert Marsland Groves|nick=Robert M. Groves|appt=24 June, 1908<ref>Groves Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/126.|D7603378}} f. ?.</ref>|end=27 March, 1909<ref>Groves Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/126.|D7603378}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Christopher Hornby|nick=Christopher Hornby|appt=24 June, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 365}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Christopher Hornby|nick=Christopher Hornby|appt=24 June, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 365}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Arthur George Hayes Bond|nick=Arthur G. H. Bond|appt=27 March, 1909<ref>Bond Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/51.|D7603558}} f. 51.</ref>{{NLJul09|p. 365}}|end=25 August, 1909<ref>Bond Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/51.|D7603558}} f. 51.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Arthur George Hayes Bond|nick=Arthur G. H. Bond|appt=27 March, 1909<ref>Bond Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/51.|D7603558}} f. 51.</ref>{{NLJul09|p. 365}}|end=25 August, 1909<ref>Bond Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/51.|D7603558}} f. 51.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Coombe Hodgson|nick=John C. Hodgson|appt=15 August, 1910<ref>Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 365}}|end=c. March, 1911<ref>Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.  Date is not fully legible.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Coombe Hodgson|nick=John C. Hodgson|appt=15 August, 1910<ref>Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 365}}|end=c. March, 1911<ref>Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.  Date is not fully legible.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} & Commander|name=Arthur Felton Crutchley|nick=Arthur F. Crutchley|appt=4 April, 1911<ref>"Naval Appointments."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Mar 23, 1911; pg. 14; Issue 39540.</ref>|end=19 April, 1911}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} & Commander|name=Arthur Felton Crutchley|nick=Arthur F. Crutchley|appt=4 April, 1911<ref>"Naval Appointments."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Mar 23, 1911; pg. 14; Issue 39540.</ref>|end=19 April, 1911}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Rowland Scarlett|nick=Francis R. Scarlett|appt=31 October, 1911{{NLAug12|p. 365}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Rowland Scarlett|nick=Francis R. Scarlett|appt=31 October, 1911<ref>Scarlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/143.|D7602917}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLAug12|p. 365}}|end=14 April, 1913<ref>Scarlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/143.|D7602917}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ambrose Maynard Peck|nick=Ambrose M. Peck|appt=14 April, 1913<ref>Peck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/324.|D7603108}} f. 364.</ref>{{NLApr14|p. 366}}|end=6 April, 1914<ref>Peck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/324.|D7603108}} f. 364.</ref>|note=and for command of the [[Nore Local Defence Flotilla]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ambrose Maynard Peck|nick=Ambrose M. Peck|appt=14 April, 1913<ref>Peck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/324.|D7603108}} f. 364.</ref>{{NLApr14|p. 366}}|end=6 April, 1914<ref>Peck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/324.|D7603108}} f. 364.</ref>|note=and for command of the [[Nore Local Defence Flotilla]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Archibald Wise Wrightson|nick=Charles A. W. Wrightson|appt=6 April, 1914<ref>Wrightson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/101.|D7602887}} f. 112.</ref>{{NLJan15|p. 376''a''}}|end=1 May, 1915{{UKNavalOpsII|pp. 401-2 and index}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=and for command of the [[Nore Local Defence Flotilla]], in command when she was lost}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Archibald Wise Wrightson|nick=Charles A. W. Wrightson|appt=6 April, 1914<ref>Wrightson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/101.|D7602887}} f. 112.</ref>{{NLJan15|p. 376''a''}}|end=1 May, 1915{{UKNavalOpsII|pp. 401-2 and index}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=and for command of the [[Nore Local Defence Flotilla]], in command when she was lost}}
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
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The conflict between Groves and Hornby is noted.  I see tears in the Service Record book for 196/45, which may be pairing the wrong careers to the wrong man in places?
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Latest revision as of 23:07, 28 January 2020

H.M.S. Recruit (1896)
Pendant Number: N.60 (1914)[1]
Builder: J. & G. Thomson[2]
Ordered: 1895-96 Programme[3]
Laid down: 18 Oct, 1895[4]
Launched: 22 Aug, 1896[5]
Commissioned: Oct, 1900[6]
Torpedoed: 1 May, 1915[7]
Fate: by UB 6[8]

H.M.S. Recruit was one of forty "C" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

She is not to be confused with the "R" class destroyer of the same name.

Service

It appears that she was to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1901,[9] but the official report on the manoeuvres indicates that her place was taken by Kangaroo.

In late 1905, she was one of eight destroyers in the First Division of the Channel Fleet's Destroyer Flotilla.[10]

Recruit was hit while at anchor in Sheerness Harbour by a barge on 27 April, 1907. She was taken into the steam basin, awaiting her turn in the No. 3 Dock when Ure was undocked on 29 April.[11]

She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.[12]

In mid-1913, active with the Nore Local Defence Flotilla.[13]

She was torpedoed by UB 6 on 1 May, 1915[14] near Galloper Lightship, with the loss of 39.[15] The ship was cut in half and sank immediately.[16]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

The conflict between Groves and Hornby is noted. I see tears in the Service Record book for 196/45, which may be pairing the wrong careers to the wrong man in places?

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  8. ↑ Uboat.net
  9. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), 11 July 1901, p. 8.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1905). pp. 267, 269.
  11. ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 29, 1907; pg. 10; Issue 38319.
  12. ↑ "The Naval Mobilization." The Times (London, England), Thursday, June 17, 1909, Issue 38988, p.9.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 365.
  14. ↑ Uboat.net Many sources seem to confuse this Recruit and the "R" class Recruit, which was sunk by UB 16.
  15. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 63.
  16. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume II. pp. 401-2.
  17. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 297a.
  19. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, 16 May 1902. (36769), p. 11.
  20. ↑ Bather Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/438. f. 438.
  21. ↑ "APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 16, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37134.
  22. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, December 24, 1904, Issue 37586, p.4.
  23. ↑ Todd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/7. f. 7.
  24. ↑ Todd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/7. f. 7.
  25. ↑ Nicholas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 306.
  26. ↑ Nicholas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 306.
  27. ↑ Anderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/354. f. 399.
  28. ↑ Anderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/354. f. 399.
  29. ↑ Gladstone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/129. f. 144.
  30. ↑ Gladstone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/129. f. 144.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 365.
  32. ↑ Groves Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/126. f. ?.
  33. ↑ Groves Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/126. f. ?.
  34. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 365.
  35. ↑ Bond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/51. f. 51.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1909). p. 365.
  37. ↑ Bond Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/51. f. 51.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 365.
  39. ↑ Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  40. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 365.
  41. ↑ Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124. Date is not fully legible.
  42. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 23, 1911; pg. 14; Issue 39540.
  43. ↑ Scarlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/143. f. ?.
  44. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 365.
  45. ↑ Scarlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/143. f. ?.
  46. ↑ Peck Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/324. f. 364.
  47. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 366.
  48. ↑ Peck Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/324. f. 364.
  49. ↑ Wrightson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/101. f. 112.
  50. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 376a.
  51. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume II. pp. 401-2 and index.

Bibliography


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